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Proof of God

• The Collected Arguments for God
• Creationists vs. Atheists
• Beating a Not-So-Dead God...Err, Horse
• Confessing My Sins
• The Scientific Theory of God
• Revelations
• Skipping To The End
• Why Pi?
• The FINAL Proof of God
• The Greek Creation "Myth"
• The Zodiac
• The Science of God
• Ozymandias Strikes Yet Again

I don’t read the Bible, never really have. Sure, I’ve had it read to me tons of times in Church when I was a kid and in “Bible studies”, etc. But I have never really sat down and actually read it myself. So with all of this “Proof of God” stuff that I have been writing about, I figured I would sit down and at LEAST read “Revelations” and I have to say, what the H, E, double hockey sticks is THAT all about?!?! Somehow, it seems a TAD out of place in the grand scheme of the rest of the Bible. Let me explain.

First of all, while the rest of the Bible is written rather allegorically, it generally does not talk in such OBVIOUS and COMPLETELY symbolic terms. A lot of the stuff seems like a direct throwback to the Greek and other pagan myths. 100 eyed this and that things, etc. But second, and most importantly, while the rest of the Bible teaches lessons about how to be a good person and act in an effort to make the world better, Revelations seems to almost just “give up”. Revelations almost seems to say “Well, don’t worry about how crappy the world gets, eventually Jesus will come back and, POOF!, make everything better once again.

I may be wrong about this, but; frankly, this just strikes me as odd, especially considering my own theories regarding all of this God stuff, namely that God is essentially life and, hopefully, us. But here’s the kicker. If God is all powerful and God can at any time just crack open the Earth, toss all the assholes down to hell and create heaven on Earth, then what’s the hold up? I mean, Jesus wrote about the apocalypse in reference to his own time. Didn’t happen. People ever since have been predicting the apocalypse at various times throughout history. They predicted it at the first millennium. Didn’t happen. The Heaven’s Gate cultist predicted it in the 1990’s. Didn’t happen. People predicted it at the second millennium, in 2000 AND 2001. Didn’t happen either time. Nostradamus seems to predict it way off in 2300 something or other. The Aztecs in 2012.

Now, if you trace apocalyptic writing, I believe it can be traced back to the Jews once again. Imagine that... No snide comments this time, my new vow of nicety and all. Anyway, John’s Revelations is essentially based upon Jewish apocalyptic texts. Sure, there’s the Nordic “end of the world” myth, Ragnorak, but those guys were pretty surly about life in general. It is written SO symbolically that it could apply to just about ANY time.

So, anyway, here’s the theory. Heaven on Earth isn’t just going to happen, we are not only going to have to EARN it, but we are going to have to BUILD it ourselves. Now, this task isn’t really as daunting as it might first appear. Sure, the world sucks and all, but migrating this world to a better world is the same as migrating any other complex system to a better system. Regardless of WHAT type of system it is or how COMPLEX it is, the same basic PROCESS applies. And the process consists of the following three easy steps.

1. Draw a “picture” of the current system. Current state.
2. Draw a “picture” of the vision for the future system. Future state.
3. Create a migration plan to get from the Current State to the Future State.

That’s it, three easy steps. And believe, me I’ve performed this kind of feat many, many times on many, many different systems. This process always works. It works on solving ANY problem, big or small. In the Information Technology world, these pictures generally consist of drawings of computers and other network systems, but the same basic principle applies to ANY feat of engineering, even such a seemingly insurmountable task as globally reengineering the world. And that is EXACTLY the task that I am going to undertake. I am going to lay out how to globally reengineer the world in the next two articles, "The World of Today" and "The World of Tomorrow". I mean, hell, why not? SOMEBODY has to step up. The Migration Plan may take me a little longer. And then, of course, there’s implementing it. That's the fun part!